Heidi Holtan
Director of Content and Public AffairsHeidi Holtan is KAXE's Director of Content and Public Affairs where she manages producers and is the local host of Morning Edition from NPR. Heidi is a regional correspondent for WDSE/WRPT's Duluth Public Television’s Almanac North.
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Sen. Heather Gustafson is a Democrat from Vadnais Heights who advocated for one-time funding for city, county and tribal governments to use for public safety including law enforcement, fire, emergency services and other essential needs.
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Aitkin County Public Health is hosting a series of community and school presentations to learn more about the opioid epidemic. Rep. Dave Baker, a Republican from Willmar, will speak about the loss of his 25-year-old son Dan to an opioid overdose in 2011.
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“Tuba Odyssey – The Journey of InnerTuba” is Friday September 15 at 7:30 p.m. featuring Jon Hodkin, a Scottish man who has been traveling by tricycle with his tuba trailer from the Mississippi Delta to the source of the Mississippi River.The Bemidji Area Community Band, BSU Symphonic Band and BSU Wind Ensemble will perform under the direction of Nick White.
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The University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardener volunteer program supports project-based volunteer activities and inspires change to promote healthy people, healthy communities and a healthy planet. Doug Fahey of Crow Wing County received a plant from the Master Gardener Program that he has kept alive for over a year.
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Honor the Earth is collaborating with artists and cultural organizer Rory Wakemup from the Bois Forte Band. Participants will learn how to replant manoomin.
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Former Top Chef contestant and Minnesota chef Justin Sutherland released his first cookbook, Northern Soul – Southern-Inspired Home Cooking from a Northern Kitchen, in 2022.
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Sen. Erin Murphy, DFL-St. Paul, says Minnesota has some of the strongest laws in the nation when it comes to cannabis. The 2023 Minn. Legislature passed many other new laws including free tuition and gun violence.
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Lorie Shaull and Tresa Undem are loyal Minnesota Lynx fans. In a recent KAXE conversation, they talked about rookies, tough teams and the skill of team Captain Napheesa Collier.
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An air quality alert has been issued by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency due to smoke from wildfires in Quebec that cycled around a low-pressure system near Hudson Bay, looping back into northwestern Minnesota.
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Jackson is a mixed media artist from Aurora, Minnesota. Her new exhibit is “Honest Americana,” opening July 6, 2023, in Virginia.